Ben Helms Posted Wednesday at 02:25 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 02:25 AM I have the opportunity of a lifetime! Ive taken the time to create an RGC Rating Device that is extremely accurate to the standards of GSI ratings for competition. Ive been blessed with a new friendship with @JeffPeterson and he is trusting me to rate ALL of his grippers. Not just any grippers, but grippers with massive sentimental value. Words cannot describe how honored i am with the trust provided by Jeff, to me. There are around 70 grippers that I'm going to rate and I’ll update the process as its moves forward. To make it even more interesting, there are very challenging grippers that Jeff wants me to test out before being rated. Fail or not, I’ll be posting to this thread about them. (What an honor to have someone think so highly of my gripper closes!) Jeff has given me an opportunity to make a name for myself. People trust ratings from monumental contributors like Jedd Johnson, Chris Rice, and Matt Cannon to rate grippers accurately, and my goal is to be added to this list. If there was anything id want to be remembered by in the grip world, it’s having reliable, and trusted ratings for grippers to be used for training or competitions. Being remembered by having trusted ratings means so much to me. Ive put a lot of time into this. Not just ratings but even my training. Grippers are my all time favorite implement for grip strength. I hope everyone that sees this thread gives it a follow because i have quite the journey ahead of me. I’ll be adding pictures, videos, ratings updates and more to this thread. Thank you all for your time and support and please feel free to follow, like, and comment on this thread. Its going to be LOADED. Hopefully after this thread is complete, you will also trust me with ratings as well. All of my ratings will come with a brass tag with my PS stamp. (Peake Street) and you’re more than welcome to compare ratings with CPW. I can guarantee that they are less than .5rgc off. Stay tuned. Its going to be EPIC. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffPeterson Posted Wednesday at 02:58 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 02:58 AM Yeah man, I'm pretty excited to see this in action. Ben is going rate the grippers and as he said, he is going to give an honest attempt to close the number fours the GHP nine and the HG 400. Round 1 39. Grippers. Some specifics I'm interested in. My hard double stamped #2. It received a very early Cannon rating of 122.4. My double stamped #3. I believe this to be a very easy #3. Ben will have to let us know. GHP 6-10. Morbid curiosity on the 9 and 10 as those seem impossibly difficult. GNC 300. It's a funky gripper. All of my GNC grippers are funky. They're narrow they have no sweep, but they just bind up at the end and it's hard to touch the handles. Ben is now the owner of the HG 400 and HG 500 as well. These are serial stamped #1. Ben if you ever get sick of these, please give me the first right of refusal . I believe this completes his 400 collection, but I could be wrong. I've been happy to help him collect his last 3 400 grippers. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Helms Posted Wednesday at 03:05 AM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 03:05 AM 4 minutes ago, JeffPeterson said: Yeah man, I'm pretty excited to see this in action. Ben is going rate the grippers and as he said, he is going to give an honest attempt to close the number fours the GHP nine and the HG 400. Round 1 39. Grippers. Some specifics I'm interested in. My hard double stamped #2. It received a very early Cannon rating of 122.4. My double stamped #3. I believe this to be a very easy #3. Ben will have to let us know. GHP 6-10. Morbid curiosity on the 9 and 10 as those seem impossibly difficult. GNC 300. It's a funky gripper. All of my GNC grippers are funky. They're narrow they have no sweep, but they just bind up at the end and it's hard to touch the handles. Ben is now the owner of the HG 400 and HG 500 as well. These are serial stamped #1. Ben if you ever get sick of these, please give me the first right of refusal . I believe this completes his 400 collection, but I could be wrong. I've been happy to help him collect his last 3 400 grippers. I will do my best on the coc 4’s and ghp9 but i can guarantee that i wont come close to the ghp10! this is going to be such a fun experience!!! If i ever decide to part ways with the HG400 and 500 (i dont think i will though!) then you absolutely get first dibs! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liftyzig Posted Wednesday at 05:08 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 05:08 PM This will be an epic thread! 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Climber028 Posted Wednesday at 05:18 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 05:18 PM (edited) Gonna be nice to see some of these ratings. I can't even imagine you not being able to close the HG 400, no idea about the 500 that could go either way Edited Wednesday at 05:18 PM by Climber028 Typo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liftyzig Posted Wednesday at 05:19 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 05:19 PM Ben should be able to TNS the HG400 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bencrush Posted Wednesday at 07:27 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:27 PM 2 hours ago, liftyzig said: Ben should be able to TNS the HG400 Absolutely! I TNS closed every HG400 I touched. And he's way beyond where I was at my strongest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Helms Posted 16 hours ago Author Share Posted 16 hours ago Today starts the journey with rating a large amount of grippers trusted to me by Jeff Peterson. He sent me 32 grippers to rate and thats only half the batch! This first batch has Tettings, GHP’s, Bonecrushers, CoC’s, and much more. In this video, I only had time to rate one gripper. It was a CoC4 and I was challenged by Jeff to attempt a close and guess the rating before hand. I ended up closing this gripper making it my first new model CoC4 ive closed. Not only was did I get that PR, it ended up rating at 208rgc making that a 1rgc PR as well! After closing the gripper i guessed it was around 205rgc because it was super tough and ended up being off on my guess by 3rgc. Not too shabby of a guess! In this video, i tns a double stamp CoC3, MMS close a newer model CoC3, and MMS close a CoC3.5 as those were also challenge requests from Jeff. I showed how I cleaned the grippers and what they looked like before hand. They were super rusty but not anymore. There will be other grippers that Jeff wants me to try and close and guess the rating as well but that will be in future videos to come. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liftyzig Posted 16 hours ago Share Posted 16 hours ago Great closes man! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Helms Posted 15 hours ago Author Share Posted 15 hours ago 56 minutes ago, liftyzig said: Great closes man! Thanks bro! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffPeterson Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago Who are you? Who slams random hard grippers like that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorOfCrush Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago 2 minutes ago, JeffPeterson said: Who are you? Who slams random hard grippers like that. Ben lives in rare air, my friend. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane.warrior Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago 43 minutes ago, JeffPeterson said: Who slams random hard grippers like that. tiziano becchio and dmitry volegov 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffPeterson Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago 1 minute ago, insane.warrior said: tiziano becchio and dmitry volegov I should start sending that gripper around and see how many people can just brutalize it. So far just Ben. Clay said he may have, but it wasn't at a good angle to verify 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane.warrior Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago Great closes @Ben Helms! I must say that you have an incredibly fast recovery, stay healthy and strong! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Helms Posted 8 hours ago Author Share Posted 8 hours ago Update for Peterson ratings. Rated 3 more grippers for the day. A 143rgc CoC3, a 163rgc CoC3.5, and a 211rgc CoC4. I only round up passed .6rgc. This almost made the cut, but thats my preference. Final rating, 211. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffPeterson Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago 36 minutes ago, Ben Helms said: Update for Peterson ratings. Rated 3 more grippers for the day. A 143rgc CoC3, a 163rgc CoC3.5, and a 211rgc CoC4. I only round up passed .6rgc. This almost made the cut, but thats my preference. Final rating, 211. My double stamped #3 will be mid 130's I bet. I say this based on how that other 3 rated. My total 3's. Excited to see this tomorrow. 163rgc is lowing for a 3.5, correct? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorOfCrush Posted 6 hours ago Share Posted 6 hours ago 1 hour ago, JeffPeterson said: My double stamped #3 will be mid 130's I bet. I say this based on how that other 3 rated. My total 3's. Excited to see this tomorrow. 163rgc is lowing for a 3.5, correct? Pretty low yeah. The lowest ever rated new by CPW was 158. Not sure what Matt has seen via rate and return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grepm.m Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 2 hours ago, DoctorOfCrush said: Pretty low yeah. The lowest ever rated new by CPW was 158. Not sure what Matt has seen via rate and return. @C8Myotome didn’t you sell a 158 rated 3.5 a while back? Would also be interesting to see all the rating stats from Cannon, including rate and return. Filed grippers would also be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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